[SGVLUG] Stiring the pot: online freedom ?

[John E. Kreznar]

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"Emerson, Tom (*IC)" <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> writes:

> ... Perhaps the hardest pill to swallow is the fact that protecting
> "freedom of speech" also means protecting "unpopular speech", and by
> it's very definition precludes ever classiffying speech/expression
> as "illegal" in the first place.

> What's your take on this?

It's too important to be subjected to political control.  Fortunately,
this is not necessary.  As long as there is an Internet, the
possibility will exist of preventing censorship by /technical/ means,
not political.  One tool is GNUnet:

   About
   ====
   GNUnet is a secure, trust-based peer-to-peer framework.  A first
   service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous
   censorship-resistant file-sharing.  GNUnet's primary design goals
   are to protect the privacy of its users and to guard itself against
   attacks or abuse.  GNUnet does not have any mechanisms to control,
   track or censor users.  Instead, the GNUnet protocols aim to make
   it as hard as possible to find out what is happening on the network
   or to disrupt operations.

GNUnet 0.8.0 is available from http://gnunet.org/download.php and all
GNU ftp mirrors.

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
  ... who has not requested or consented to any political jurisdiction.

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